Title: Space Between Lines
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Space Between Lines

 *  [editornen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/editornen/)
 * (@editornen)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/space-between-lines/)
 * I am using Twenty Eleven. I have a headline on a page. The page uses raw html.
 * This is the only code that will make the headline big as I need it:
 * `<a href=""><p style="font-family: arial black; color: black; font-size:50px;
   text-align: center;"><strong>TESTING</strong></a>`
 * However, when my headline is long, which it often is, it goes to two lines and
   there is a big gap (space) between the lines.
 * In other words, it looks like this (almost like two separate headlines):
 * TESTING
 * TESTING
 * I want it to look like this:
 * TESTING
    TESTING
 * Thanks!

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/space-between-lines/#post-3081881)
 * You’ll need to use CSS to change the spacing of that. But before changing anything
   in twentyeleven, you need to create a [Child Theme](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)—
   otherwise all your changes will be deleted when WP is updated. Even more important
   is that you must have a clean copy of twentyeleven to use for various troubleshooting
   purposes.
 * Also include a link to your site for specific help with the CSS once you have
   a child theme set up.
 *  Thread Starter [editornen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/editornen/)
 * (@editornen)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/space-between-lines/#post-3081887)
 * I have a child theme. I have changed CSS many times before but I just can’t seem
   to identify what needs changing this time. Thanks.
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/space-between-lines/#post-3081895)
 * Unless you can post a link to your site, it’s almost impossible to help specifically
   with things like this. Alternatively, use Firebug to work with the CSS — it will
   show you exactly what code is creating the space between the lines of text. If
   there is no margin or padding causing the space, it’s likely the line-height —
   see this:
 * [http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_dim_line-height.asp](http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_dim_line-height.asp)
 * Also, for headlines, you should may want to use h tags, not p tags.
 *  Thread Starter [editornen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/editornen/)
 * (@editornen)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/space-between-lines/#post-3081923)
 * Website is MA-NE.net.
 * Notice the space between lines on…SEXTON HAD HEADS-UP, HEAD START.
 * Thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [editornen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/editornen/)
 * (@editornen)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/space-between-lines/#post-3081924)
 * You solved it. Changing line-height from 1.625 to 1.225 did it. Thanks.
 *     ```
       /* =Global
       ----------------------------------------------- */
   
       body, input, textarea {
       	color: #373737;
       	font: 12px "Courier", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
       	font-weight: 300;
       	line-height: 1.225;
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [editornen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/editornen/)
 * (@editornen)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/space-between-lines/#post-3081925)
 * Also, could you explain more about h tags versus p tags. I don’t understand. 
   Thanks.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/space-between-lines/#post-3081925)
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